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Community Newsletter 2018 Armagh | Banbridge | Kilkeel | Lurgan | Newry | Portadown Community Newsletter 2018 Welcome to our 6th annual Community ensure that everyone has access to the very Newsletter. best quality education. The Newsletter aims to update you on the Our Community Development Officers work successes of the last 12 months, keep you in partnership with schools, children’s centres, informed of the wide ranging work the College libraries, community and voluntary sector undertakes with our community partners and organisations as well as our local councils to provide details of what is happening in your deliver adult education to meet local needs. In area. Our Community Development Officers 2017/18 we delivered a total of 454 community deliver a range of services to support existing training courses to 2,718 participants in 90 and new community groups in the region. I hope community venues throughout the region. our Newsletter will give you a good insight into the work we undertake to support community If you manage or work for a community group education and development in your area. within the region and you think it could benefit from engagement with SRC, please do not Southern Regional College is a community hesitate to get in touch with us. A member of college and we take our role within our local our team will be delighted to meet with you to David Vint: Assistant Director Community, communities seriously. We work with over 100 discuss how your community could benefit from Schools’ Partnership & External Funding partners covering over 1,500 square miles to engagement with SRC. Strengthening Community Relations Following on from community meetings with or groups who would not normally attend Northern Ireland. It is in this context that the SRC we have established Memorandums of college based education back to formal community organisations and the College Understanding (MoU) with existing community learning and continuing their participation recognise the benefits of working together for partners. The document is part of SRC’s and progression to programmes of study the benefit of the residents local communities. community team strategy to improve the offered in the College’s main campuses; This will help achieve the vision of the Armagh, efficiency of the relationship between SRC and Banbridge and Craigavon and the Newry, local community organisations in providing 2. Community development; working with Mourne & Down Councils community plans: education and employment opportunities to communities to identify their needs, the delivery of a happy, healthy and connected local people. provide opportunities which tackle community, a vibrant and sustainable economy inequality and support community and appealing places for living, working, visiting A strong working relationship between many development; and investing. community groups and the College already exists. The MoU seeks to strengthen some 3. Economic inclusion; this area of work aims of the more informal arrangements that exist to bring about social change by addressing in order to support and improve the working economic inactivity. Programmes are relationship and sets out the respective linked closely to job creation and moving commitments of the named organisations to individual from a culture of benefit collaborate and work in partnership across a dependency to employment. number of areas including: It is recognised through the draft Programme 1. Providing FE programmes in the for Government and the Economic Strategy community that seeks to widen for Northern Ireland that skills development participation by encouraging individuals is central to the future economic success of @SRCCommunityEducation Community Newsletter 2018 SRC Courses Offered in Newly Established ACT Initiative Offices in Banbridge Bernie Burns Retires From In May 2018 Act Initiative opened their new office in Castlewellan Road in Banbridge. The initiative has been working with residents in the Banbridge area for several years aiming to create a safe environment and improving Drumellan Family community well-being. One objective high on the initiative’s agenda is to enhance the well-being and skills of young people from the local area. The ACT Initiative have linked with SRC community team to set up a range Learning Centre of courses in computers, first aid and food hygiene to assist young people in SRC would like to acknowledge the work of Bernie Burns who has becoming responsible and skilled citizens. recently retired from her managing role in Drumellan Family Learning Grant Nesbitt the manager of Act Initiative says that “working with SRC will Centre and wishes her every happiness in her retirement. enable him to offer a learning programme that fits in well with his overall Bernie has managed the Drumellan Family Learning centre in Brownlow strategy. Connecting with SRC will also raise the profile of Act Initiative and since 1999. She has worked directly with the college to help deliver reach out to young people with incentives and realistic opportunities that quality learning programmes and community courses for the local enhance their lives.” area ranging from childcare, healthcare, computers, cooking, yoga and If you are interested in contacting Act Initiative regarding participation in various crafts classes. As an active member of Drumellan Community their learning programmes please contact: Jim Cunningham, SRC on Association for over 41 years she has directly been involved in M: 077 1198 1732 T: 028 3839 7868 or E: [email protected] the development of many positive initiatives with SRC and other community organisations, statutory bodies and residents groups. Bernie says “I will miss working with the college’s community team as they have been very helpful over the years in providing professional accredited learning to local residents. I will also miss working with the tutors who are always first rate and go the extra mile to support Dressmaking the centre and students. I hope the good relationship the college has with the local community through partnering with Drumellan Centre in Cabra continues long after my retirement.” Bernie intends to continue her community work but on a much lesser Cabra Community Hall, outside Rathfriland is host to a well- scale to allow her to spend time with her family and pursue her hobby established Dressmaking class. These are very relaxed, informal of singing with the Gilford United Artists group. classes where individuals are encouraged to work on projects of their own choice. Many new hand-made garments have been Bernie will be replaced by the Drumellan centre’s new manager modelled at the end of each class which is quite an achievement Mandy Rogers who is from the local area. Mandy hopes to build on for those who sign up claiming ‘not even able to sew a button’! the endeavours of Bernie and is planning with the college to offer The course runs twice per year and new enrolments are always from the centre essential skills classes in ICT, Maths, English; cookery, welcomed. photography and other short courses. For more information please contact Lesley on T: 028 3025 9717 We wish Bernie well in her retirement. or M: 07841 102846 Community Newsletter 2018 SEAFLAG Launch Old Town House in Rathfriland a New SRC Centre of Learning Pictured at the launch of the £2.3 million European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) were Chairperson of SEAFLAG Board - Alderman Angus Carson; Chairperson of Newry, Mourne and Down District Council – Cllr Mark Murnin, Mayor of North Down and Ards - Cllr Richard Smart, Cllr Jill MacAuley, Cllr Brian Quinn, Cllr Dermot Curran, David Vint, Assistant Director, Community Schools’ Partnership & External Funding, Southern Regional College and members of the SEAFLAG committee. The funding aims to aid communities in Northern Ireland where commercial fishing remains a major source of income and provides employment opportunities. The Department of Agriculture, SRC has commenced classes in Rathfriland at the new Community Hub Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has appointed the South East in the centre of the town. The Hub was established by the Rathfriland & Area (SEA) Fisheries Local Action Group (FLAG) to prepare and deliver District Regeneration Co Ltd (Rathfriland Regeneration) a registered charity. a £2.3 million local development strategy for local fishing communities. Initially the Community Hub was a private house and medical surgery before being purchased by the Regeneration Company. SEAFLAG comprises of representatives from the public, private and voluntary sectors within the two participating Councils of Newry, The College works in partnership with the group to deliver classes in City Mourne and Down District Council and Ards and North Down Borough & Guilds Level 1 and 2 Information Technology (computers) and Digital Council Photography. All college courses are delivered in the centre’s brand new computer suite. The centre is fully furnished and hosts a range of activities Under Union Priority 4 the funding will support a broad range of for the local community. projects that focus on promotion of economic growth; social inclusion; job creation and supporting labour mobility in coastal and inland Members of the group say they are ‘indebted to Southern Regional College communities depending on fishing and aquaculture, including the for agreeing to run classes in our Hub and look forward to a long association diversification of activities within fisheries and into other sectors of the with them. Indeed, it was only with the backing of SRC that
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